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A makeshift house burns

in Lwandle, an impoverished area about 25 miles from Cape Town, as government workers evict squatters from privately owned land earmarked for a highway construction project. Some residents set fire to their homes rather than let workers tear them down.

This grand piano mysteriously appeared last week on a sliver of beach underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Though badly damaged, the Mason & Hamlin piano has become an impromptu tourist draw, drawing dozens each day to test out its keys.

A large soap bubble created by a street performer lands on tourists in Seoul.

Bubble trap:

A large soap bubble created by a street performer lands on tourists in Seoul.

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Angel's walking days are over:

Robert Crews pushes 18-year-old Angel and Patches the puppy down Cassat Avenue in Jacksonville, Fla. Crews says he chauffeurs Angel because she can no longer go for walks due to her bad hips. Patches could trot alongside them, but he prefers to ride as well.

A supporter of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement dons a headdress of oranges as she attends a rally in Nairobi welcoming Odinga back to the country. Tens of thousands greeted Odinga, who narrowly lost the last election to current President Uhuru Kenyatta and was returning following a three-month sabbatical in the United States.

An armed pro-Russian militant in a shirt bearing an emblem of a former Ukrainian special forces
police unit sits behind a camouflage netting while guarding a checkpoint on the main highway linking
the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and Kharkiv, Ukraine.

A British Lynx Mk8 helicopter fires all 60 of its flares at once over the destroyer HMS Dragon during war games off Portsmouth, England. The picture won a prize in the Royal Navy's photographic awards.